In South Korea entered digital car driver licenses

In the middle of August, 2020 in South Korea the service of digital driver's licenses on the basis of the PASS application for authentication of the personality was started. More than 30 million people use it for mobile financial transactions since 2018.

Service of digital driver's licenses is developed by the Korean national police agency, Management of traffic and three mobile operators of the country - SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus. Digital driver's licenses will become the first electronic version of the official certificate which will be considered as legally acceptable form of confirmation of the personality in South Korea.

It is supposed that new service will solve the problems connected with theft or illegal use of driver's licenses. Since 2020 digital driver's licenses will be used for renewal and prolongation of driver's licenses and also for issue of driver's licenses in English in 27 expert points.

In South Korea entered digital car driver licenses

The Korean national police department also considers plans for use of new service in work of police which includes check of the personality. Mobile operators conduct meanwhile negotiations with the companies which are engaged in car rental. They will soon accept digital driver's licenses as the identity certificate, and to sign the agreement on services remotely.

Users of PASS can already register the driver's licenses in the application, but can use only one smartphone registered under own name of the owner. To confirm authenticity of information and to block counterfeits, mobile operators connected the servers of authentication of the personality to the system of driver's licenses of the Korean national police department. Control is exercised by means of blockchain technologies.^[1]

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